Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Corporations taking advantage of the situation to price gouge, jack up prices while trying to blame workers for rising costs.

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Fat too many people

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Could pay more after saying no

Kellogg must be run by a group of sociopaths

vbartilucci:
“THE CANDLES MUST FLOW
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Demolish Big Pharma

and they still are poor

Gift for poor women

house cat libertarians

Whoa. “Arizona students stage hunger strike to urge Sinema to support voting reform” cc: ⁦@SenatorSinema⁩ 😥 1/ https://t.co/wmVuRDRHqx

— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) December 12, 2021

On DAY SIX of not eating, hunger striker Georgia is really feeling the effects – she’s feeling weak, and our doctors are monitoring her vital signs as she approaches a week without food. pic.twitter.com/Q2xkMA2oML

— Arizona Youth Hunger Strike for Democracy (@AZ4Democracy) December 12, 2021

Sorry but the above hunger strike is stupid and makes hunger strikes look bad. The fact is Sinema doesn’t care and wont care if these protestors die. She has made that clear. She cares only about herself, her future. and her money. Her money! She cares about what her donors pay her to care about. She is shamelessly bought and legally bribed.

And yet Bernie fully backed up Biden’s run for president. Clyburn stopped Bernie by convincing more people to vote for Joe. That’s part of democracy. What about putting up candidates with a bit of personality and bite instead of the bland non-entities who raise the most money? Hugs

trump privilege not a thing

As a reminder: pretrial release conditions — which, after all, are imposed on people who are presumed innocent — are designed to protect the public and prevent flight, not to be punitive. https://t.co/AqTn1feVcB

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) December 12, 2021

Guns and children at Christmas is sick. You are appealing to abusers, white supremacists, and the cult of toxic enablers. The opposite of Jesus.

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1470170846136348677?s=20

I can't find anything that sampled data from the past decade (unless you count Media Matters which doesn't peer review). But everything before that, yes. This collects links to studies that came up in searches but several went back to MM studyhttps://t.co/52CU7LWYL7

— John Shannonhouse (@JLShannonhouse) December 12, 2021

covid holiday dinners

Virus santa and virus sled pullers

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This is the danger I mentioned before. Disbelieving the person being discriminated against being the default position of authorities. The idea that it is best to assume everyone who claims to have been discriminated against or assaulted due to racism / bigotry is lying or making it up. That is a scary place to be in for the disadvantaged. Hugs

Have right wing cartoonist seen the job numbers? Biden adds 943k jobs — more jobs in a single month than Trump netted during his ENTIRE TERM. Are you glad Biden is President?” Nearly a million jobs added for the month. Then the wall street Journal published: “Biden went on to say, “We have now created over 3 million jobs since I took office, more jobs than have ever been created in the first five months of any presidency in modern history, thanks to the incredible work of the entire team.”” 3 million jobs added. Even coming out of Covid slow down and with a continuing Covid presence that is great. Hugs

I seen a slew of these misleading right wing media cartoons that said Santa was anti-vaccine and Santa wouldn’t visit any where there was a vaccine requirement. What a crock. These people do not speak for the mythical character, the spirit of Christmas is not deterred by virus or vaccine for virus. This is a mind control scare job attempt. It is disgusting. Hugs

Same old mislabeled trope. Time to give it a rest. The only ones voting to defund the police have been Republicans. The people that really just wanted reform did not think through the defund slogan. If you need a long explanation for what you really mean about something, it’s best to reword it. I some places if you’re not white, police will search your car during a traffic stop and take your money for “evidence” of suspected drug activity. No receipt given even when requested. Going to the station doesn’t help with the sudden amnesia of what happened to your cash or drug charges, at least until the next “random* traffic stop. Yeah, the police fund themselves just fine. it is helpful to understand the frustration that spawned that unhelpful slogan. In many if not most black neighborhoods, they actually would be safer with no police at all. Why? The police do not stop gang violence or even try in many cases. Rather, they harass, arrest, shake down, and kill black people who are doing nothing wrong. In a daily basis. For them, this cartoon is laughable. They truly feel that if the police went away, they would be safer. Whatever happened to making police more liable for murder. Guess nothing will change and more black/People of colour will continue to die or be bullied.

For the rest of us, we believe that police forces around the country have forgotten they are our employees. They are supposed to be here to protect and serve, yet too often they protect and serve only the richest and best connected. They throw their power around far too much, they protect their own even when they are bad apples. The entire policing system in this country needs a complete overhaul. Funds need to be directed toward mental health, and trained mental health professionals need to be the first responders in mental health crises. The whole system of using cops as revenue collectors (ie., speeding tickets) is also abhorrent to cops and citizens alike. Policing CAN be a positive for ALL Americans, but today it is being used as a wedge issue to divide Americans and keep far too many innocent people living in fear while not stopping the guilty from committing crimes — or even bringing them to justice. Hugs

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Putin Rues Soviet Collapse as Demise of ‘Historical Russia’

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-12-12/putin-rues-soviet-collapse-as-demise-of-historical-russia

FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a joint news conference with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis following their meeting at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi, Russia December 8, 2021. Sputnik/Evgeny Odinokov/Kremlin via REUTERSREUTERS

President Vladimir Putin has lamented the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago as the demise of what he called “historical Russia” and said the economic crisis that followed was so bad he was forced to moonlight as a taxi driver.

Putin’s comments, released by state TV on Sunday, are likely to further fuel speculation about his foreign policy intentions among critics, who accuse him of planning to recreate the Soviet Union and of contemplating an attack on Ukraine, a notion the Kremlin has dismissed as fear-mongering.

“It was a disintegration of historical Russia under the name of the Soviet Union,” Putin said of the 1991 breakup, in comments aired on Sunday as part of a documentary film called “Russia. New History”, the RIA state news agency reported.

“We turned into a completely different country. And what had been built up over 1,000 years was largely lost,” said Putin, saying 25 million Russian people in newly independent countries suddenly found themselves cut off from Russia, part of what he called “a major humanitarian tragedy”.

Putin also described for the first time how he was affected personally by the tough economic times that followed the Soviet collapse, when Russia suffered double-digit inflation.

“Sometimes (I) had to moonlight and drive a taxi. It is unpleasant to talk about this but, unfortunately, this also took place,” the president said.

Putin, who served in the Soviet-era KGB, has previously called the collapse of the Soviet Union, which was ruled from Moscow, as the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century, but his new comments show how he viewed it specifically as a setback for Russian power.

Ukraine was one of 15 Soviet republics and Putin used a lengthy article published on the Kremlin website this year to set out why he believed Russia’s southern neighbor and its people were an integral part of Russian history and culture. This view is rejected by Kyiv as a politically motivated and over-simplified version of history.

The West has accused Russia of massing tens of thousands of troops near Ukraine in preparation for a possible attack as soon as January. The Group of Seven wealthy democracies warned Moscow on Sunday of massive consequences and severe costs if it attacked Ukraine.

The Kremlin has said Russia has no plans to launch a fresh attack on Ukraine and that the West appears to have convinced itself of Moscow’s aggressive intentions based on what it calls false Western media stories.

Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014 and has backed separatists who took control of a swath of eastern Ukraine that same year and who continue to fight Ukrainian government forces.

Authorities: Teens charged in trespassing case were in ‘planning stage of school shooting’

https://wjactv.com/news/local/two-teens-charged-with-conspiracy-to-commit-terrorism-in-westmont-trespassing-incident

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Westmont school shooting plot suspects: Logan Pringle, 17 (left) & Preston Hinebaugh, 16 (right)

Authorities have provided new details about the investigation into the Westmont Hilltop High School trespassing incident, which they are now calling an alleged school shooting plot.

Investigators say as a result of subsequent search warrants, a total of five AR-15 style firearms, a rifle, a shotgun and additional ammunition were seized from the home of 16-year-old Preston Hinebaugh.

Police also confirmed that they can prove that Hinebaugh had “access and control to at least two of the weapons at different points in time.”

Upper Yoder police chief Don Hess stressed to 6 News that the other teenager being charged, 17-year-old Logan Pringle, was not allowed to be on Westmont school property due to a prior threat in which he “threatened to shoot up the school,” and was expelled from the district.

A criminal affidavit states that Pringle had a past history of threats and “dangerous actions” towards the school district, including lighting a carpet on fire and bringing fireworks to the school in January of 2018, as well as the prior shooting threat.

According to the criminal complaint, Pringle gained access to Westmont Hilltop High School on Tuesday after Hinebaugh let him through the front door of the building, without any staff noticing.

Authorities say surveillance video shows the pair wandering the halls of the school and observing camera locations throughout the building.

Chief Hess noted that all investigating agencies believe that the two teens were in the “planning phase of a school shooting.”

Pringle reportedly told police in an interview that he “didn’t think it would be that easy to get back into the school,” but said that he left the building through a side door near the gymnasium because he thought he would be caught.

Hinebaugh also told police in an interview that Pringle was “obsessed” with guns and had previously made firearm parts while attending a local vocational school.

During the course of the investigation, police also noted that just days prior to the “security breach,” Pringle used a computer at his school to research information on guns, specifically AR-15 style weapons.

Both teens are being held at Cambria County Prison and have preliminary hearings scheduled for Dec. 20.

Pringle’s bail was set at $250,000 while Hinebaugh’s was set at $400,000.

Preston Hinebaugh Complaint by Ryan Graffius on Scribd

Logan Pringle Complaint by Ryan Graffius on Scribd

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Two teenagers have been charged as adults with multiple felonies, including Conspiracy to Commit Terrorism, related to an investigation of an unauthorized person gaining access to Westmont Hilltop High School on Tuesday.

Logan J. Pringle, 17, of Conemaugh Township, Somerset County, has been charged with Conspiracy to Commit Terrorism, Conspiracy to Commit Aggravated Assault, and Attempt to Commit Aggravated Assault, according to a release from Cambria County District Attorney Greg Neugebauer released to Westmont Hilltop parents Saturday morning.

Also, Preston R. Hinebaugh, 16, of Upper Yoder Township has been charged with Conspiracy to Commit Terrorism, Conspiracy to Commit Aggravated Assault, Conspiracy to Commit Criminal Trespass, and Possession of Firearm by a Minor, according to Neugebauer’s release.

Both defendants were taken into custody without incident and are currently in the Cambria County Prison awaiting preliminary arraignment, according to the release.

ORIGINAL STORY | Warrant: Police seize AR-15 during investigation into Westmont trespassing incident

Neugebauer said “an alarmed parent” alerted the school to the security breach.

“Recent events, including this one, must serve as a reminder that we all should remain alert to protect ourselves and those around us,” Neugebauer said. “All threats to the safety of our schools and institutions will be thoroughly and swiftly investigated, and all incidents will be taken seriously.”

Police said in a search warrant obtained by 6 News from the office of Magisterial District Judge Susan M. Gindlesperger on Friday that an AR-15 style firearm was found in Hinebaugh’s home. Authorities say the boy admitted to possessing the weapon, without his parents’ knowledge, during a police interview.

Police said they found the weapon in Hinebaugh’s bedroom, along with ammunition and other firearm-related accessories.

Westmont Hilltop Superintendent Thomas Mitchell said Thursday that students and employees were not in danger. “Each time we are confronted with student behavior that requires police intervention, it is an opportunity for the school administration to refine its approach and quicken its response to improve the safety of all students and employees,” he said in a statement.

Neugebauer said the FBI has joined the investigation along with the Department of Homeland Security, ATF, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

District Attorney Greg Neugebauer also added that, ” I do believe tragedy was prevented.”

Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Whee did all the money go, who has it, and why are the rest struggling to live the American dream

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Choose to ignore it

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Avoid these corporate bastards. Let your wallet do the talking.

Boycott Kellogg’s.

Just a reminder to intelligent liberals: for-profit political “media” doesn’t help elect democrats nor influence policy. For 20 years they don’t want you to understand they are #owned #monopolies, & pawns of billionaire media. Look it up. #talknowalk...

Student loans are the only unforgivable debt via bankruptcy.

what happens if kill fillibuster

tin foil hat gop

be the most christian

things not over

I don't need glasses to see your

no one hit you with a shovel

killing florida with stupidity

https://reagan-was-a-horrible-president.tumblr.com/post/670320059844083712

““Even if you convince me that the god of the Bible actually exists…
your real battle will be convincing me to worship an immoral, genocidal dictator that demands my love.”
– JT Richardson
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Humans are better than the gods they create… overall.

Could not agree more. OR, make the sperm donor pay for HiS child until 18 years old. https://t.co/ZqnTsj0edH

— Signe Wilkinson (@SigneWilk) December 11, 2021

World Human Rights Day, Dec. 10 2021

Zack Hill for Dec 12, 2021

Weird how the folks saying that #JussieSmollett proves progressives are just salivating to find evidence of racism in America sound just like the folks saying that #MeToo is a bunch of lying women making false accusations of sexual assault/harassment.

— Gretchen Koch (@GretchenKoch) December 11, 2021

Law enforcement deserves no less skepticism and no more deference than any other entity or source. In fact, because of their powers over life and death, they deserve more skepticism and less deference. We have to do better. https://t.co/Q16Qh2b4d7

— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) December 11, 2021

Why are journalists still, after all the evidence that law enforcement lies, that crime stats are trending down, that law enforcement has a vested interest in stories about rising crime, still allow law enforcement to drive so much coverage? https://t.co/nSW7DWMtWt

— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) December 11, 2021

if they are having a good day

I think this is more likely to get SCOTUS’s attention as an argument against upholding the Texas law than it is to become law itself.

But either way, it’s a great response. https://t.co/wR7FGta89N

— Kurt Busiek (@KurtBusiek) December 12, 2021

fuck around and find out

if it is not gay its tsa

I made this cat tree with an animal cracker box at the center of it months ago. No cat entered, until finally Ollie broke the Cat Code of Ignoring Cat Trees in Proportion to How Much They Cost and/or How Much Labor Went Into Putting Them Up, and took a nap in it this afternoon. pic.twitter.com/Ma7tiXfS1E

— Gretchen Koch (@GretchenKoch) December 11, 2021

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I was surprised at the commenters who not only agreed with this cartoon but cheered it on. The misinformation in the US is overwhelming and dangerous. Let’s address each panel starting with the top left. Rittenhouse posed with white supremacist where he was flashing the white power finger sign while grinning seemingly real happy. Rittenhouse was declared not guilty of murder but he did kill two people after taking an assault style rifle to a place he did not belong because he knew that possible violence could happen and then antagonized others there to the point they attacked him causing him to fire his weapon to defend himself. I think he shouldn’t have been able to use the self defense argument but the court allowed it.

Second panel. If you watched the videos carefully Nick Sandmann did what he is accused of, he stepped down into the path of Phillips while his buddies cheered him on. Phillips couldn’t back up nor move sideways but Sandmann could. He knew that and what he was doing. A large teen blocking the path of a smaller older man with a cheering crowd at his side, you tell me if that is not deliberate intimidation.

Third panel. There is documented evidence of the cooperation between the tRump campaign and the Russians. There was obstruction documented in the Mueller report. the fact is no one investigated collusion as Mueller had already been told he couldn’t indict tRump and the term collusion has no specific legal meaning in criminal law; there’s no such criminal charge. But again there is no doubt of the tight way the tRump campaign worked with the Russians.

Fourth panel. And what boss would not fire an employee that lied to them? Hugs

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Cops’ disgusting racist & homophobic text messages call 1400 cases into question

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/12/cops-disgusting-racist-homophobic-text-messages-call-1400-cases-question/

For years, a group of California cops texted each other blatantly racist and anti-LGBTQ messages while admitting to targeting minority groups.

By Bil Browning Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Photo: Shutterstock

A cadre of police officers’ despicable text messages over the past few years could allegedly jeopardize almost 1400 cases. The cops incredibly offensive messages included racist and anti-LGBTQ slurs, memes mocking violence against minority groups, and shockingly candid admissions to targeting minority groups.

Approximately 18 officers, most with the Torrance Police Department, have been implicated, calling their testimony and arrests into question – particularly since they also admit to lying to internal investigators. Other officers were in the text group but didn’t respond and aren’t being investigated.

The group allegedly joked about lynching Black people, “gassing” Jews, and beating LGBTQ people. The n-word, anti-LGBTQ slurs, and demeaning names for Latinos also were common.

“So we totally racially profiled his ass, haha … Shopping at 7/11 while Black, he didn’t know the rules lol,” one officer texted the group after learning he was the subject of a racial profiling complaint. The complaint was dismissed and the officer was cleared of any misconduct allegations.

Members repeatedly cheered on police violence and mocked racial justice protestors. One officer complained about being assigned to work with a gay cop and threatened to “straight punch” a gay man, using derogatory slurs about him. Many members had been involved in excessive force, false arrest, and wrongful death lawsuits.

The text messages were revealed when two of the bigoted cops were so bold they spraypainted a swastika and a smiley face inside of a suspect’s car before it could be towed. The subsequent investigation led to the discovery of the text messages. Both men were in the group chat.

“What those text messages revealed was an extraordinarily hostile attitude toward people of color, people who are nonbinary, people who have different sexual orientations,” Walter Katz, a former independent police auditor in California, told the Los Angeles Times. “I don’t know that we can take anything they’ve said at face value.”

The newspaper examined several of the messages, internal documents, and interviewed prosecutors and defense attorneys to confirm the story. The outlet was able to identify at least 13 individuals, while the department confirmed at least another five are under investigation.

Rioter Claims Secret Society Tricked Him Into Rioting

Rioter Claims Secret Society Tricked Him Into Rioting

🚨NEW: An alleged member of the Three Percenter militia movement claims he was MANIPULATED into joining the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by Yale SECRET SOCIETY “Skull & Bones” and other groups he says were COVERTLY acting for the governmenthttps://t.co/ImyNellfqG
— HeadlineHunter!🚨U.S. (@HHunter_US) December 9, 2021

Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Why in the US do people have to work and struggle for survival when the people in other advanced countries do not have too?

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bless the internet

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odinsblog:
“ January 20th, 1981 at 12:01pm
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gehayi:
“accras:
“Bingo
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Also, they’ve been stealing from it since the 1980s. Ronald Reagan and his cronies treated Social Security–which was then operating at a SURPLUS–as their own personal slush fund.
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Bezos feels no shame.

https://reagan-was-a-horrible-president.tumblr.com/post/670227296912867328

Political Cartoon.

tRump shows his feelings for committee

inserrecetion powerpoint lots of pictures

Thanks vlad my buddy

Where are their guns? pic.twitter.com/gXrFvAzIZy

— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) December 9, 2021

decorate with guns

Remember Republicans screeching about ‘activist judges’.

riding shotgun in forced birth

How would our Supreme Court rule on this? In need of a baby boom, China clamps down on vasectomies https://t.co/33RaKEhmYE

— Signe Wilkinson (@SigneWilk) December 10, 2021

Fox is more upset that the flames revealed their tree to be nothing more than chicken wire and an elaborate garland wrapped around it https://t.co/cnc6oKpxAO

— Benjamin Slyngstad (@SlyngCartoons) December 10, 2021

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Unemployment is 4.2 % Wages are rising. Please tell me again how the Media is promoting something that isn’t true! The wages for the lowest earners are rising faster than the highest earners for the first time in decades! How is that a media smoke screen? Just read an article about US jobless claims at 52-year low. All lies, I guess. The media reports the SAME employment numbers as “bad” under Biden that they said were “good” under Trump. Incessant screaming about inflation when it is a natural part of supply and demand. When people are polled about the issues without saying which stance is from Dems or Repubs result in HUGE numbers in favor of liberal and even PROGRESSIVE ideas being highly favored, especially taxing the wealthy and large corporations, but the media keeps saying that Dems need to move even further towards Repub ideals to appeal to the voters. The media is corporate, it definitely doesn’t favor Dems.

Of course it depends on which media you look at. Fox, OANN, Newsmax, Breitbart and similar will tell you that anything a Democrat does is wrong, even if a republican does it first. Hugs

Another example of Mike Lester’s incompetence with statistics. There has been no statistically significant difference in the increase in homicide rates for cities with Democratic and Republican mayors. US cities with Trump hotels have higher homicide rates than the US as a whole. That’s just about as meaningful a statistic as the one M. Lester is relying on. More big cities have Democrat (or non-partisan) mayors than GQP or even GOP. That has been true all along. And it’s also true that bigger cities have more criminals who are committing more murders than last year or the year before. But if you look at the top 5 or 10 cities with GOP mayors and the most murderous cities of similar size with Democrat mayors, you will see that the rates have no correlation w/ the party in charge. None. Interesting. The top ten states in terms of murder rates are: Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, S. Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Illinois, Maryland and Georgia. Most of these are deep red states. Maybe they need Democratic governors. Hugs

There are elections in those cities.

Portland ran all “nonpartisan” candidates. I don’t see an R candidate in Tucson. Albuquerque ran all “nonpartisan” candidates. Austin ran all “nonpartisan” candidates. I don’t see an R candidate in St. Paul. Baton Rouge was a 56/43 result. Indianapolis was a 72/27 result. Louisville was a 61/27 result. Toledo ran all “nonpartisan” candidates. Columbus -the nonpartisan incumbent ran unopposed as far as I can tell. In Rochester it looks like the D candidate ran unopposed In Philly it looks like an 80/19 result. This doesn’t look like the Rs are trying Mike. 5 of those races were all “nonpartisan”. While I agree that those kids would want the murder rate to go down I don’t see any of them looking to Rs to save them. Results pulled from Ballotpedia or Wikipedia (depending on which came up first).

I see pictures of Republican families armed to the teeth with guns. Some of which are the kind that are designed just to kill humans. Meanwhile they support an attack on the nation’s Capital, refuse to impeach a criminal in office and still try to claim that they are the party of Law and Order. This is gaslighting at the Olympic level.

These are local elections and they allow people living in the community a voice in what the elected officials do. That is democracy. The people have to be here in the country legally to vote, they just don’t have to be a citizen like in federal elections. So stop the fear mongering about a simple issue of fairness. Hugs

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every street corner attack

Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Even as the economy is roaring back big corporations are trying to rake in every cent of profit they can at the expense of the people.

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disguised as an adult

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You’re right. Sorry for the lowest jobless claims in 52 years, America. https://t.co/oNhZzzDkTR

— Benjamin Slyngstad (@SlyngCartoons) December 10, 2021

Boycott Kellogg's! They need to negotiate with striking workers, not replace them. pic.twitter.com/bfyeQThvN5

— Barry makes comics (@barrydeutsch) December 9, 2021

r/antiwork is trying to flood Kellogg's applications system after the company announced it would replace 1,400 striking workers.https://t.co/v3iyasbMU3

— VICE News (@VICENews) December 9, 2021

Andy Marlette for Dec 10, 2021

Zack Hill for Dec 10, 2021

Republicans love ethnofascists.

"My favorite Bob Dole moment was when he took money away from vulnerable seniors to help preserve upper-class tax cuts" pic.twitter.com/1C7Darq7zp

— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) December 9, 2021

Political cartoon

moon is fake

Trump is a traitor.

medical degree

rake the ground no fire

speaking of small dicks

https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/1468963763827011585?s=20

card from gop house

Imagine if your teenager was killed by another teenager, and your response was to give more teenagers more guns. At Christmas.

Republican brand is ‘proud irresponsibility’.

Political cartoon

Jussie Smollett should pay for the investigation and so should the many white people calling the police on black people doing every day activities while black. Don’t single out the black guy for a false police report and let all the white people doing them go. The ones really hurt by Smollett’s false claims are the future LGBTQ+ who are attacked and abused who wont be believed or viewed with suspicion due to what Smollett did. The right is going to have a field day with this issue, but am not putting this one in the misleading right wing section because it is true that Smollett has been found guilty of making a false report of being attacked by maga guys. Hugs

Invest in trains. Plan high-density walkable cities. Get rid of cars.

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No that is not why. One of the jobs of these medical experts is to explain the situation, the issue in a clear way the public can understand. As in the first part using something that sounds like “new” would lead to confusion. Using the name of a country’s leader also would be confusing. It also would be inflammatory. The maga right wing crowd seem to forget that many wanted to call Covid 19 the tRump virus because of the horrible job he did dealing with the virus. How would the maga cult feel about their dear leader saddled with that? They would scream non-stop that their feelings were hurt. So the same with other world leaders. Hugs

Total misdirection. Pregnancies are not contagious. I can not catch the zygote from you. a bunch of women can not get pregnant from one pregnant woman. Covid is a virus, it is contagious just from being in a room with a person who has it. To get pregnant requires an action on your part, but catching Covid doesn’t require you to participate. Vaccine mandates are legal and have been required since before the US was a country. Good old George Washington required his soldiers to get vaccinated. Hugs

People are comparing 2021 gas prices to 2020 gas prices when the economy was in a covid lockdown and fewer people driving and demand was way down. Better comparison prices in 2018 (from Ballotpedia)“As of Aug. 7, 2018, the average price for a gallon of regular gasoline ranged from $2.57 (Mississippi) to $3.77 (Hawaii).As of Aug. 7, 2018, average gasoline prices per gallon equaled or exceeded $3.00 in 11 states and Washington, D.C.The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline on Aug. 7, 2018, was $2.86.” Today in Austin gas is $2.95. Hugs

Why not return the abortion issue to the women and let them decide!? Right, leave it up to individual states to impose their rule over women. Next up, can religious rulers impose their views on their states’ populations? They don’t want the United States of America, they want the Independent States of America. More powers for the governors. The main fallacy with “return to the states and let the voters decide” is that the more oppressive states are doing their best to cherry pick who “the voters” are. If the abortion issue was truly decided by the voters it would be much more available as would birth control. Because the right to bodily autonomy should be constitutionally protected. It’s not that hard to understand. Because bodily autonomy is too important to let states have different rules. Something that we already do for a myriad less basic issues. Like which side of the road to drive on. Like requiring that everyone legally allowed have actual access to voting. Like requiring drugs be tested for efficacy and safety. Hugs

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